QuoteReplyTopic: Yakub: the scientist that created the white man Posted: 18-Mar-2009 at 11:51

It is funny that once in a while. afrocentrist followers reach our site and start to post in threads about the race of ancient cultures, trying to show the origins of all civilizations are Subsaharan Africa. So they try to prove Moors were Blacks, ancient China was Black, Ancient Olmecs were blacks, ancient North American indians, and even the Norse! Besides a group of personalities like Cleopatra, Hannibal, Beethoven and even the Queen Charlotte of England.

These ideas are not spontaneous, but comes from a pseudoreligious movement that was organized at the beginning of the 20th century to rise the pride of Black Americans, who were very much humilliated at a time when racist and fascism spread throught the world.

One of the most fantastic ideas developed by these groups was the Myth of Yakub, invented by the founder of the Black muslims. The myth of Yakub say white man is the result of a genetical experiment made by an African scientist thousand of years ago, that turned blacks into whites by genetical selection...

In the movie Malcom X you can see the actor preaching this myth literarily.

Well, let's see more about this strange myth, and perhaps we would get surpised to know how far these ideas have gone.

Yakub Myth." A basic teaching in their belief system is the "Yakub myth." Yakub was one of the council of 24 black scientist-gods. He rebelled against Allah and the council, causing havoc. He created the white race as a race of devils to strike back at the black race. Elijah Muhammad said that black people are not sinners, but that the white man is at fault for their problems.

From wiki:

In the black nationalist movement, the Nation of Islam, (which differs considerably from other, traditional forms of Islam) Jacob's name is spelled Yakub. Instead of being seen as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel he is presented as an evil scientist who created the white race by genetic experimentation on an isolated group of the original black peoples of the world, conducted on the island of Patmos. Breeding this white race took six hundred years. Yakub's progeny are destined by God to be the ruling race of the world for an allotted period of six thousand years, before the original black race regains dominance, a process that is supposed to have begun in 1914. Originating with Wallace Fard Muhammad, The prophet of the Nation of Islam, the sources of this theory have yet to be fully traced. The teachings of the Nation of Islam are regarded by mainstream Islam as blasphemy.

"He who attempts to count the stars, not even knowing how to count the knots of the 'quipus'(counting string), ought to be held in derision."

Hey, it is not Jacob... It is Yakub. That's the way the Nation of Islam name that scientist. Read the cover of the title in the book of Elijah Muhammad

They spell it this way because they pretend to be Muslims, and Yakob (also spelled Yakub) is the Arabic and Islamic name of Jacob, aka Yakov in the Jewish Bible.

He rebelled against Allah and the council, causing havoc.

Rebelling against Allah...

Nation of Islam is a bunch of frauds who associate their delirious senseless racist cult with the Islamic religion, which accepts all races including White people. It is sad some naive Muslims are fooled by the wordplay and believe they're followers of Islam.

Here is a French-speaking Afrocentrist website. The goal is still the same; proving that Black Africa civilised the whole world and the West in particular, by inventing writing, technology, and sciences. As usual, many Western historians' books are used as arguments, their authors would have a hard laugh by reading how some idiots use their works to false history... http://www.shenoc.com/les%20pheniciens.htm

As I said earlier, since to them even part Black people who do not look Sub-Saharan anymore, such as Mariah Carey (I always thought she was a White), are labeled as Blacks, no wonder why they believe their fairy tales. One should remind them how a real pure sub-Saharan African look like.

Even Gabriel doesn't look Black, it is rather partially Black women who look like her, and they're not Black but mixed people. Some frustrated Black supremacists say they're proud of the Black "race" while they always label as Black people in the sense of race not only culture, some mixed light people who have non-Black blood, which shows they like to identify with lighter people because they dislike their own appearance...

Yes the fantastical wishful thinking of NOI's early thinkers certainly resulted in a lot of nonesense. I wonder if clerics in the mainstream Islamic world have gone to the effort of disowning/refuting this group out of scholarly concern for their abuse of historical affairs.

It is not the challenges a people face which define who they are, but rather the way in which they respond to those challenges.

There is a surprising amount of scholarly tolerance for Black supremacist psuedo-history.

I work on a daily basis with a Black African scholar who's in the field of Black European studies. Occasionally assisting him, I've come into contact with some of the literature and while many of these books are critically acclaimed and written by moderate historians of Black history, they still operate with a number of misunderstandings, exaggerations and oversimplifications that I suspect they are only able to get away with unmolested because most scholars avoid the quagmire of complications they risk by exposing them.

Typical is the definition of everything non-European as Black, for apparently everyone turns Negroid the moment you cross the Bosphorus or the Ural mountains. Also typical are gross exaggerations of "the Black achievement", if you will, by either redefining non-Negroid populations as Black or exaggerating the impact of Sub-Saharan Africans outside of their region. Opposing views tend to be undermined not by deconstruction of the arguments, but by associating them with racism and imperialism.

Yes the fantastical wishful thinking of NOI's early thinkers certainly resulted in a lot of nonesense. I wonder if clerics in the mainstream Islamic world have gone to the effort of disowning/refuting this group out of scholarly concern for their abuse of historical affairs.

Most Muslim clerics are usually busy to pray and do not necessarilly watch Western medias, I don't know if they ever heard about this cult. However, some Muslim intellectuals who live in the West have an opinion.

By Selma
Cook, on the website of
The Islamic Garden

The nation of Islam - fact
or fraud??

One of the
biggest frauds of our time, is being undertaken by a group who
call themselves the 'Nation of Islam!' They and their teachings
have nothing to do with Islam and it remains a mystery why they
insist on being called thus. Their association with Islam can be
likened to a person going into a department store and buying a
dish washer. Then the salesperson returns with a washing machine.
When questioned about this strange response, the salesperson
replies, 'But it looks the same! The body is square and it
washes, doesn't it!?' The reality is that the inner workings of
the machine are different and cannot be used for the same
purposes.

As much as the
ideas and teachings of the NOI are strange and incoherent(), so is
the fact that such a large amount of human beings from the so-called
most 'civilized and developed' country in the world choose to
follow it! Strangeness is often attractive to desperate people,
who can see no other way out of their dilemma except through a
fanciful mouthful of lies and exaggerations. Perhaps it brings
them, for a moment, out of the mundaneness and injustice of the
modern world into the realm of fantasy and fiction; taking them
from the depths of human degradation to 'god hood'.

Needless to say,
Wallace Dodd Ford (the founder of the NOI) was well-equipped to
lead his host of millions through the fanciful realm of the
ludicrous, as he was in fact an inept con-man, who finalized his
training in the art of fraud and deceit in Prison. Upon his
release he fell upon a deceiver of an even higher degree, whom he
later named Elijah Mohammad and by combining their ingenious
potential for evil and fraud, devised a plan, doctrine and
methodology to raise the esteem of the oppressed people to the
heights. He simply called these misused, oppressed masses 'gods'
in their own right. Now that surely seemed like a no fail plan.

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